GSLIS poster earns Honorable Mention at iConference

At the recent iConference, a group of GSLIS students and faculty earned an Honorable Mention award for their poster, "Identifying Claims in Social Science Literature." The group included doctoral student Shameem Ahmed, Associate
Professor Catherine Blake, Assistant Professor Kate Williams,
doctoral student Noah Lenstra, and master’s student Qiyuan
Liu.

The poster presented initial findings from the application of the Claim Framework to social science research:

The Claim Framework was developed to capture how scientists communicate
findings from an empirical study. Although the framework has been
evaluated in biomedical literature, the framework has yet to be explored
with respect to social science literature. Our goal is to fill that gap
and explore the degree to which the Claim Framework can capture claims
made in two social science research areas: Community Informatics and
Information and Communication Technologies for Development. This poster
presents preliminary results on the number and location of claims in
full-text social science articles compared to claims in biomedical
articles.

The poster is available in IDEALS, the digital repository for scholarly works produced at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.